S&C GN – Tech Strategy & Advisory

Data Strategy & Data Governance Manager  

Join our team in Technology Strategy for an exciting career opportunity to enable our most strategic clients to realize exceptional business value from technology

Practice: Technology Strategy & Advisory, Capability Network I Areas of Work: Data Strategy I Level: Manager | Location: Bangalore/Gurgaon/Mumbai/Pune/Chennai/Hyderabad/Kolkata | Years of Exp: 10 to 15 years

Explore an Exciting Career at Accenture

Do you believe in creating an impact? Are you a problem solver who enjoys working on transformative strategies for global clients? Are you passionate about being part of an inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture?

Then, this is the right place for you! Welcome to a host of exciting global opportunities in Accenture Technology Strategy & Advisory.

The Practice- A Brief Sketch:

The Technology Strategy & Advisory Practice is a part of Accenture Strategy and focuses on the clients’ most strategic priorities. We help clients achieve growth and efficiency through innovative R&D transformation, aimed at redefining business models using agile methodologies.

As part of this high performing team, you will work on the scaling Data & Analytics—and the data that fuels it all—to power every single person and every single process. You will part of our global team of experts who work on the right scalable solutions and services that help clients achieve your business objectives faster.

• Business Transformation: Assessment of Data & Analytics potential and development of use cases that can transform business
• Transforming Businesses: Envisioning and Designing customized, next-generation data and analytics products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for today's connected landscape of disruptive technologies
• Formulation of Guiding Principles and Components: Assessing impact to client’s technology landscape/ architecture and ensuring formulation of relevant guiding principles and platform components.
• Product and Frameworks: Evaluate existing data and analytics products and frameworks available and develop options for proposed solutions.

Bring your best skills forward to excel in the role:

Leverage your knowledge of technology trends across Data & Analytics and how they can be applied to address real world problems and opportunities. Interact with client stakeholders to understand their Data & Analytics problems, priority use-cases, define a problem statement, understand the scope of the engagement, and also drive projects to deliver value to the client Design & guide development of Enterprise-wide Data & Analytics strategy for our clients that includes Data & Analytics Architecture, Data on Cloud, Data Quality, Metadata and Master Data strategy Establish framework for effective Data Governance across multispeed implementations. Define data ownership, standards, policies and associated processes Define a Data & Analytics operating model to manage data across organization. Establish processes around effective data management ensuring Data Quality & Governance standards as well as roles for Data Stewards Benchmark against global research benchmarks and leading industry peers to understand current & recommend Data & Analytics solutions Conduct discovery workshops and design sessions to elicit Data & Analytics opportunities and client pain areas. Develop and Drive Data Capability Maturity Assessment, Data & Analytics Operating Model & Data Governance exercises for clients A fair understanding of data platform strategy for data on cloud migrations, big data technologies, large scale data lake and DW on cloud solutions. Utilize strong expertise & certification in any of the Data & Analytics on Cloud platforms – Google, Azure or AWS Collaborate with business experts for business understanding, working with other consultants and platform engineers for solutions and with technology teams for prototyping and client implementations. Create expert content and use advanced presentation, public speaking, content creation and communication skills for C-Level discussions. Demonstrate strong understanding of a specific industry, client or technology and function as an expert to advise senior leadership. Manage budgeting and forecasting activities and build financial proposals

Your experience counts!

• MBA from a tier 1 institute
• 5 – 7 years of Strategy Consulting experience at a consulting firm
• 3+ years of experience on projects showcasing skills across these capabilities- Data Capability Maturity Assessment, Data & Analytics Strategy, Data Operating Model & Governance, Data on Cloud Strategy, Data Architecture Strategy
• At least 2 years of experience on architecting or designing solutions for any two of these domains - Data Quality, Master Data (MDM), Metadata, data lineage, data catalog.
• Experience in one or more technologies in the data governance space: Collibra, Talend, Informatica, SAP MDG, Stibo, Alteryx, Alation etc.
• 3+ years of experience in designing end-to-end Enterprise Data & Analytics Strategic Solutions leveraging Cloud & Non-Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, AliCloud, Snowflake, Hadoop, Cloudera, Informatica, Snowflake, Palantir
• Deep Understanding of data supply chain and building value realization framework for data transformations
• 3+ years of experience leading or managing teams effectively including planning/structuring analytical work, facilitating team workshops, and developing Data & Analytics strategy recommendations as well as developing POCs
• Foundational understanding of data privacy is desired
• Mandatory knowledge of IT & Enterprise architecture concepts through practical experience and knowledge of technology trends e.g. Mobility, Cloud, Digital, Collaboration
•  A strong understanding in any of the following industries is preferred:  Financial Services, Retail, Consumer Goods, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Transportation, Hospitality, Automotive/Industrial, Mining and Resources or equivalent domains
• CDMP Certification from DAMA preferred
• Cloud Data & AI Practitioner Certifications (Azure, AWS, Google) desirable but not essential

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